9/16/24
9/14/24
CARLOS CASTANEDA QUOTE from THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY
page 78-79 paperback
"I began my story, telling don Juan that the circumstances of my life have never permitted me to be introspective. As far back in my past as I can remember, my daily life has been filled to the brim with pragmatic problems that have clamored for immediate resolution. I remember my favorite uncle telling me that he was appalled at having found out that I had never received a gift for Christmas or my birthday.
I had come to live in my father's family home not too long before he made that statement. He (Don Juan) commiserated with me about the unfairness of my situation. He even apologized, although it had nothing to do with him.
.... He (my uncle) insisted over and over that I had to forgive the people who had wronged me. From what he said, I formed the impression that he wanted me to confront my father with his finding and accuse him of indolence and neglect, and then, of course, forgive him. He failed to see that I didn't feel wronged at all. Asking me to do required an introspective nature that would make me respond to the barbs of psychological mistreatment once they were pointed out to me....
I never had the opportunity to think about it, but my uncle must have talked to my father, because I got a gift from him, a package neatly wrapped up, with a ribbon and all, and a little card that said "Sorry."
I curiously and eagerly ripped the wrappings. There was a cardboard box, and inside it there was a beautiful toy, a tiny boat with a a winding key attached to the steam pipe. It could be used by children to play with while they took baths in the bathtub. My father had thoroughly forgotten that I was already fifteen years old and for all practical purposes, a man."
"I began my story, telling don Juan that the circumstances of my life have never permitted me to be introspective. As far back in my past as I can remember, my daily life has been filled to the brim with pragmatic problems that have clamored for immediate resolution. I remember my favorite uncle telling me that he was appalled at having found out that I had never received a gift for Christmas or my birthday.
I had come to live in my father's family home not too long before he made that statement. He (Don Juan) commiserated with me about the unfairness of my situation. He even apologized, although it had nothing to do with him.
.... He (my uncle) insisted over and over that I had to forgive the people who had wronged me. From what he said, I formed the impression that he wanted me to confront my father with his finding and accuse him of indolence and neglect, and then, of course, forgive him. He failed to see that I didn't feel wronged at all. Asking me to do required an introspective nature that would make me respond to the barbs of psychological mistreatment once they were pointed out to me....
I never had the opportunity to think about it, but my uncle must have talked to my father, because I got a gift from him, a package neatly wrapped up, with a ribbon and all, and a little card that said "Sorry."
I curiously and eagerly ripped the wrappings. There was a cardboard box, and inside it there was a beautiful toy, a tiny boat with a a winding key attached to the steam pipe. It could be used by children to play with while they took baths in the bathtub. My father had thoroughly forgotten that I was already fifteen years old and for all practical purposes, a man."
9/11/24
9/9/24
IMMINENT by LUIS ELIZONDO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW and COMMENTARY
I listened to this excellent book as an audiobook, after listening to a number of interviews of author Luis Elizondo via YouTube versions of radio programs. I always like it when an author reads their own work, which he did. I got a sense of the man's values and personality from all of this, and so I decided to hear the details not given on programs by listening to the book. Though he, as most UAP researchers, investigators, and experiencers do, experiences criticism, censure, retaliation and even revenge, Elizondo is entirely believable about his experience working for the Pentagon and the defense of the United States of America, after being in the military and participating in war. When he says thousands of reports by pilots have been made of unexplainable Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and that our Navy has evidence of Unidentified Phenomena that enters and is in the oceans, I believe it. I also believe our Presidents have since the mid 1950's been given some idea we are not alone in the universe. I believe it is possible that we have evidence of physical air ships and actual alien bodies, that some inventions are "reverse engineered." I can say that in this moment I doubt any of this will have a profound effect on my own life.
I encourage you to read this book and arrive at your own notions. Then I need to make a departure because I personally don't agree with Elizondo - or some others such as Linda Moulton Howe, whose Earthfiles podcasts I often listen to, that humans are ready for "full disclosure."
Elizondo mentions that some of his colleagues at the Pentagon told him to read his Bible and support the theory that "they" - the aliens of various types - are demons. This is the very reason I don't agree humans are ready for "full disclosure." Not because I agree or disagree that the aliens are all demons and not because I believe in "literal interpretations" of the Bible, which I do not. Rather it's because I've encountered those humans who do, in particular Fundamentalist Christians (who are as anti-Catholic as you can get in America) and seem invested in End Times, which they very much want to happen ASAP. (Not for nothing that Fox News, with it's Republican following, has taken on the reveal.) End Times; Even if it's bloody violent and millions die agonizing deaths, for not being Christian or the right kind of Christian, and the perpetrator is none other than Jesus Christ or God the Father. (Am I confused that the message was peace and love?) Some of these people have their plans for the End of the World scenarios ready, from hideaway bunkers and a years worth of food in the basement to their own ammunitions; we can fear that they take their inspiration from school shooters.
One time, a year or so ago, while at the library, I overheard a woman talking excitedly about a book and so I asked her what she was reading. She said her minister loved this book, and I ordered it, thinking it was non-fiction. When I received it I wondered what church and what minister was telling his members that this fiction book typified what would happen when Jesus came again. (Maybe the same ones who don't know Dan Brown's work is fiction?) I also realized she was delighting, salivating, at the violence that would occur, and that she would be saved from.
There are those who think the aliens are demons. Then there are those who've had experiences that science is trying to explain. Originally not particularly interested in UFOs/UAPs, the time came when Elizondo could not deny the information that was being shared with him absolutely meant they were real and the cover-up had been ongoing for decades. In his book, Imminent, Elizondo tries to explain how they might defy gravity while also maneuvering at tremendous speed and just how behind we are technologically.
Elizondo says that for a while he, his wife, his children, and their neighbors, saw green orbs that made it through their walls, and overall gave an impression that they were watching.
I thought of a long ago associate who had a strong meditation practice which she did in the evenings while living at home and caring for her mother. As a member of Self Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles, she had moved beyond her religious upbringing, which was Jewish. She told me she saw orbs (if I recall they were smallish and not green) come to her when she was in meditation. She asked her guru what these were and was given a mysterious non-answer, something like that, when she was ready, she would know what they were.
I also thought of the original Star Trek television series, which I saw after school as reruns. I recall hearing people say that actor William Shatner could not act, but hey, the program was low budget for some time and he once had to talk to what looked like a plastic globe with blinking mini Christmas lights, as though it were an alien intelligence trapped in there. (These plastic globes sat on a shelf and when the lights went out, that meant that the alien had died.)
We need to suspect our disbelief.
Science doesn't function to prove but to disprove.
Say it isn't so?
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